Year 6 Narrative Unit 3 – Authors and texts

Teaching sequence phase 2

Exploring the characters and their conflicts or dilemmas through empathy and role-play, recording outcomes in the reading journal (2 days)

Note: This phase could be combined with phase 3.

Teaching content:

• With the children, identify interesting and important conflicts between characters in one or more of the books.
• Explore these through a variety of communication scenarios, for example live role-play improvisation, movement or dance, simulated conversation with a partner in partnership class through email or instant messaging, creating a script and podcasting it for other children for comment.
• In modelled or shared writing, produce a journal entry to record or respond to one such exploration.
• Children write or create a journal entry for their own exploration. If this has included electronic exploration and recording then a file, for example a sound file, could be created and attached to their e-log.

Learning outcome:

• Children can use a range of drama and other techniques to explore characters and their conflicts and dilemmas and extend their response to stories.